My 2026 EV and AI-Chatbot-as-Search-Assistant Roundup

Upshot: My EV options remain lousy, they'll probably get worse, and AI chatbots are still terrible search assistants. This post ended up so much longer than I expected! Here are the subtopics: Me and the compact SUV EV landscape Driver Monitoring Systems and the false positive problem 2026 convertible EV overview AI chatbots as EV search assistants Using chatbots to generate an image for this…